Author: blass uri
Date: 07:45:17 11/14/99
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On November 14, 1999 at 06:46:10, Bella Freud wrote: <snipped> >I might also add that his "sharing" leads to underperformance as his competitors >steal his ideas (parallel, bitboards) and return him nothing but abuse. >Therefore any competent programmer will always be able to produce an end-product >that is better than his Crafty. In theory you are right but practically most of the top programs are not better than crafty(at least at slow time control). Crafty16.6 won rebel in the 1 hour per move games of Ed. I also know that most of the top programs cannot use parallel search and cannot use nalimov tablebases. Many programs do mistakes that crafty does not do(Bishop trapped at a7) Understanding crafty's code is not easy and programmers usually try to build their own program instead of understanding crafty's code. I am against personal attacks against hyatt but I am for the commercial programs and hope they can do something clearly better than crafty. I do not like the fact that people who worked hard for their programs cannot earn much money from their programs because of crafty. Uri
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